Facebook status sparks discussion.

"MoMA's Fourth and Fifth floor Lack Women"

Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City combed through a lengthy discussion on art critic, Jerry Saltz's status update on Facebook about the lack of women artists on display in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. According to Saltz, “Of the 383 works on the 4th & 5th flrs. of MoMA’s perm. coll., only 19 are by women (4%).”

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Shelley Rice

Head over to Will Steacy's Blog to checkout Shelley Rice's Top Ten. Shelly Rice is a prolific and respected art critic and historian and while at NYU she taught me a lot about image making & its effects (and I think Emily Shur, Hank Willis Thomas, Wyatt Gallery and many other NYU grads would agree).
And while from the get go I was studying photography and art history at NYU, Shelley certainly solidified my interest in not just making photographs but also thinking about them -- and the art community at large.
Thanks Shelley!